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Explores the fashioning and refashioning of modern Chinese subjectivity as it relates to the literal and figurative body of the nation. This book contains essays that reveal the particular temporality of the modern Chinese nation-state.

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"These are essays in cultural criticism of a type rare in the China field. They have the power to make one regard the everyday differently."—Gail Hershatter, University of California at Santa Cruz

National PastTimes

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      Publisher: Duke University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 24/10/1997
      ISBN13: 9780822319696, 978-0822319696
      ISBN10: 0822319691
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Explores the fashioning and refashioning of modern Chinese subjectivity as it relates to the literal and figurative body of the nation. This book contains essays that reveal the particular temporality of the modern Chinese nation-state.

      Trade Review
      "These are essays in cultural criticism of a type rare in the China field. They have the power to make one regard the everyday differently."—Gail Hershatter, University of California at Santa Cruz

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